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"I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world,
And for because the world is populous
And here is not a creature but myself
I cannot do it -- yet I'll hammer it out..."
-- Shakespeare, Richard II 5.5.1-5

"Why then should witlesse man so much misweene
That nothing is, but that which he hath seene?
What if within the Moones faire shining spheare,
What if in euery other starre vnseene
Of other worldes he happily should heare?
He wonder would much more: yet such to some appeare."
-- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene II, Proem 3.4-9

"The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew..."
-- Milton, Paradise Regained IV.293-94

"I began to act the tragedies for the benefit of my father and mother. Unfortunately I was an only child, which meant that I had to play all the parts, so I leapt in and out of the door at the end of our sitting room, duelling with myself, forcing myself to drink from my own poisoned chalice, and furiously upbraiding myself as my own mother. They were productions which must have been far more enjoyable to perform than to watch. When I was 13 and played Richard II at school, I was astonished to have an actual Queen to kiss, and a murderer to assault me in the gaol. As I died on the speech room platform I thought that life would never provide me with a more glorious moment; nor has it."
-- John Mortimer

"For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
It is in cloister or in scole, by many skiles I fynde.
For in cloistre cometh no man to querele ne to fighte,
But al is buxomnesse there and bokes, to rede and to lerne.
In scole there is skile, and scorn but if he lerne,
And gret love and likyng, for ech of hem lereth oother."
-- William Langland, Piers Plowman X.299-304

"'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, 'is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then -- to learn.'"
-- T.H. White, The Once and Future King

"History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself."
-- Sellar and Yeatman, 1066 and All That